Marcos Martins: Falling Apart

Artist(s):

• Marcos Martins

Title:

Falling Apart

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 1992: Art Show

Size:

1:38

Category:

• Animation & Video

Artist Statement:

Combining photography with computer-rendered images, Falling Apart wants to challenge people’s trust in their own perceptions. Photography has traditionally been seen as the most accurate medium of representing reality. Computer rendering of images is now the most perfect medium to simulate reality. By mixing representation and simulation, this film creates contrasting levels of illusion in order to raise questions about the truthfulness or falseness of what is being shown. Falling Apart wants to show how much our perception can be manipulated.

Technical Information:

Hardware: SGI Personal IRIS 4D/35, Mavica 2000 (still video camera), Macintosh IIfx
Software: TDI, Photoshop

Sponsors:

CNPQ Grant (Brazilian Government)